The devastation of Hurricane Katrina sparked sweeping changes in hurricane forecasting and emergency preparedness. Forecast models, satellite imagery, and real-time data from Hurricane Hunter aircraft ...
Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, with wind gusts exceeding 130 mph and a surge of water taller than a two-story building. The water left the coast in ruins and swelled through ...
Twenty years ago this week, NPR reported on one of the most catastrophic natural disasters in American history. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR CONTENT) MARY LANDRIEU: It is gorgeous. It's sunny. And it is ...
Forty years before Katrina, Hurricane Betsy was the most recent modern-era flood in New Orleans. On Sept. 9, 1965, 60 years ago tonight, Betsy roared ashore in southeast Louisiana at Category 4 ...